Set up access to Openverse search
Openverse image search provides (mostly) royalty free images.
Millions of high quality photos from photographers from all over the world.
If you're into high quality photo backgrounds, need images for blogs and articles or just like to look at high-res anything, then Openverse is a useful engine to use.
Check out Openverse here: https://www.openverse.com.
To use Openverse Image Search you'll need to register Goosle for an oAUTH access token.
Goosle includes a oAuth routine to easily register for an access token.
- In your browser navigate to your goosle setup and add /functions/oauth-openverse.php to the url (ex. example.com/functions/oauth-openverse.php or example.com/functions/oauth-openverse.php?a=YOUR_HASH).
- Follow the onscreen prompts to get an authorization token to use Openverse.
- When prompted save the Client ID and Client Secret somewhere on your computer, in a note or something. Should the token file that Goosle creates get lost you'll need these strings to continue using Openverse.
- An email from Openverse will arrive within a few minutes with a confirmation link to finalize the set up.
- Once activated, enable openverse in your config.php and you're all set!
This procedure generates an access token which is stored in /cache/token.data, this token expires every 12 hours. Yeah, annoying!
To automatically renew the token you can set up the Goosle cronjob as described elsewhere in this readme.
